Local FOX declares Bennet winner.

http://kdvr.biz/public/election.html

yeah AP just called it.

Local ABC declares Bennet winner

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/election-results/24568215/detail.html

I’ll repost here: belch’s ballot was returned today.

There’s a letter from the Clerk and Recorder Director, Michael J. Scarpello’s office, signed by Amanda Hill “Mail Ballot Coordinator” dated August 9th, 2010.

It says that CO state law requires the office to compare sigs on a return ballot envelope with the sig of the voter on file.

“If a discrepancy is found between the signatures, the voter must complete a form that confirms they cast a ballot in that election.”

There is an accompanying affidavit form, and it’s due by 5:00pm Aug 18th 2010 by either mail, fax or email. Belch has to photocopy his driver’s license (or other approved sig document) and attach with the affidavit.

The election won’t be certified until after Aug 18th.

I wonder about the turnout. As soon as I saw how far up Bennet was with seniors I though he would win a toss-up.

Considering the bankster allegations, he’s basically toast, right? Whos the rethug?

undecided yet. If lucky Bennet will get Ken Buck.

It looks like Palin’s candidate in GA might lose. Her batting average lately hasn’t been very good. Hopefully a harbinger of things to come.

-Crank
http://www.thebeardedcrank.com

Buck is 4% ahead right now, 66% precincts in.

I just don’t get it. It’s probably true that I am just thick, but the ground game machines are losing in both primaries, and I was pretty good at predicting both 2006 and 2008.

OFA machine wins – new apparatus, and lost in Caucus/Convention system to Romanoff 2:1.

T-Party wins – no ground apparatus, low TV/Ad participation in Denver (most populous)market.

Does not compute here to my thick head.

I’m sorry flat. And not just for Colorado!

Being supported by the president in a primary is a huge advantage.

everyone get used to typing (D)-BankOfAmerica

I’ll accept that. Don’t like it, but I’ll accept it.

But Buck? Uh uh. There are old Denver conservatives running the machine here. The Cherry Creek Republican machine doesn’t want Buck. Of that, I’m positive.

Well it seems like both primaries are demonstrating that Colorado is peopled mainly by suckers

The Republican party on the whole has taken a sharp right turn.

I’ll advise you not to piss me off at this very moment.

I have worked long and hard to move this area from red-to-purple-to-blue.

When your community is perfectly free of sucker-age, as well as manipulation, we might just have a nice talk.

But right now, back off.

my Senator is Ben Cardin, my rep is Elijah Cummings, so uh yeah

I feel you. I’ve worked long and hard in three counties in Texas and every time I see somebody say that Texas and everybody in it should secede or that “we should give it back to Mexico”, those people should be thankful that I’m not in the same room with them. Once again, I’m sorry not only for Colorado but also for the country. :(

Yes they have.

The conservative element really was disappointed with Bush (even though they supported them) because of the “spending” and some social issues. There lack of enthusiasm in 06 and 08 cost them two elections. And in response, the party has moved right to get the base back.

Yet when I suggest this as a strategy for Democrats, let’s withhold our votes from these corporatists pigs for a cycle or two in the hope they too get the message, I’m crazy because OMG SARAH PALIN OMG THE WORLD WILL END IF THE REPUBS WIN.

Like the poster above, sometimes I just don’t get it. Even with folks on “my” side.

It seems to me we’ve tried supporting them all the time as the lesser of two evils and it just hasn’t worked. Logic, it seems to me, insists that we try something different. Besides, to be totally honest, if it meant getting the Democratic Party to take a left turn in 4 years or 6 years, I’d gladly tolerated Palin/Bachman/Angle and all of the craziest assholes they can throw at me for that. I survived Bush/Cheney after all.

Maryland! Free of Beltway Corruption and Largesse since Never!

How nice for you.

my community is Baltimore, my *state* is Maryland

also I’m not blaming you, personally, for your state being enamored with awful, awful leaders

St. Louis County (Duluth area, aka the Iron Range) hasn’t come in yet, and Dayton’s Lt. Gov is from that area. Especially with such low turnout he’s still in this, but it’s a tough hill to climb.

Thanks me darlin’. It’ always that way, ain’t it?

You’re. Not. Good. Enough.

Feh.

late nite is up

Hey, the country has awful, awful leaders.

And when John Waters starts filming those fabulously flattering movies in Denver/Boulder instead of Baltimore, you let me know, mkay?

yeah it is definitely possible for him to pull this off.

Don’t know how you’d find better folks than you and Margaret.

I too sometimes lump whole states into comments when perhaps I shouldn’t, even my very own. Virginia can be pretty stupid when they/we vote, let me tell ya. Hope if anyone makes those types of comments in the future you don’t let it phase either of one bit. Both of you are class A citizens doing the best you can do in a shitty situation.

Wasn’t Ambassador Tom Foley portrayed in the movie Babel as pretty hapless?

Virginia definitely needs to get on the even year voting track. This odd year elections is idiotic.

Kelly, I am so sorry.

I know how hard you worked and how much your beloved state deserved a Senator to represent all of us, not just the banksters and vulture hedgies like Bennet does. Nothing I say can make you feel any better tonight, so I’ll just say it again: I am so sorry.

yeah, it’s a shame working class people can actually afford to live in my city

Colorado’s indifference is shocking and not my fault, but keep misdirecting your anger

Virginia and New Jersey love the attention; they’ll never change. They get to be the post-presidential bellwethers of absolutely nothing.

Yeah, it makes it easy for the crazies to run the state government, although at times they surprise for Governor.

But IMO it should also get on the even year track because elections every year are just TOO MUCH. IMO this is another reason for lots of voter apathy. Having the negativity of elections EVERY DAMNED YEAR wears down folks, and they start to just. tune. it. out.

I so wish we would go to just elections on even years too.

Thanks. I’ll get over it. I appreciate your encouragement.

I just don’t need my nose rubbed in it this very second, so I’ll ask forgiveness from the rest of the readers here.

And with that, I’ll move on to Late Nite.

People who work hard to elect someone who might actually make a difference deserve our praise and, in tonight’s result, our compassion, not our haughty scorn. You’d do well to reconsider your attitude about the middle of the country, where Democrats must succeed if our country is to be wrested from the awful predators and snake-handlers of the GOP.

Yep. I’m more liberal than more than 90 percent of all people who call themselves liberal but I get lumped in with wingnuts every time Perry opens his mouth and all of my efforts are ignored or dissed. Really makes me want to just chuck the whole bag of stress sometimes and become apathetic.

two things:
1) if you read my original post, there was nothing haughty about it- it’s devastating to me that Colorado, a state that actually has a progressive radio station in the post-Air America era and is home to one of the best progressive minds of our generation, is still full of callow 50 and 60 somethings who would rather back the party machine than vote for a real change from the status quo…moreso that OFA put their slimy hands into this thing (granted, Colorado fell for it)

2) the snake-handlers might be GOP property, but the predators own both parties. ensuring Democratic victory means dick in a world of mandated private insurance and trillion dollar bonanzas for Wall Street hucksters

Hi Kelly!
My son loved Denver, but left to move in with his love in Chelsea, NYC. He left, wearing his Obama tee shirt and people stared him down in the airport.
My laptop is fried, and I’m using MrCE’s mac until a new one arrives this, or, next week. I had a virus attack last night in the middle of LLN.

Just passing through, looking at the primary results (FDL was one of my hits). Don’t know if you saw Michael Moore on “Countdown” tonight, but I agree with him and with you that the current administration is not working as big as it can for average Americans.
That said, I would not want Sarah Palin or those others you mentioned. I have observed Palin for 2 years. I have read “the sociopath next door: The Ruthless Versus the Rest of Us” by Martha Stoudt, Ph.D. In her book, she says that 4% or 1 in 25 people in the U.S. are sociopaths. Female or male, mostly nonviolent, a sociopath could be a family member, a boss, a neighbor, or a politician. Sarah Palin appears to have most of the “tools of the trade” mentioned in this book in her “tool belt.” She scares the H*ll out of me. You would not want this woman in power, believe me.

Would Kelliher beating Dayton really count as upset? I just assumed it would be a close race.

Dayton has the name recognition and the massive spending. Kelliher has the party endorsement and the ground campaign.

With a low turnout primary heavily skewed to DFL loyalists, polling could very easily be inaccurate.

“Would Kelliher beating Dayton really count as upset? I just assumed it would be a close race.”

It isn’t an upset at all. The polls were close all along, and in the end it was a ground game, who could get their supporters out to the polls, or to visit an Elections Office, and vote absentee or early. The rate of absentee voting in a primary is at an all time high in this election.

I would point out something here. The key to a state-wide DFL victory in November has always been pretty much the same — DFL votes are concentrated in three areas, Duluth and the Iron Range (8th Congressional District), and the two urban districts, (4th and 5th Congressional Districts), or respectively, St. Paul and Minneapolis. The Range is much more sensitive to a decrease in turn-out in November if their preference in either the Primary or the party caucus-convention system is not on the final ballot — the Urban areas are much more likely to unify behind the winner in the primary or the caucus-convention. The fact that Dayton’s victory was a product of turn-out and majorities on the Range, bids well for success this November.

Thanks, Sara! I’ve had reservations about Dayton’s ability to fight a long, protracted and dirty contest such as what Tom Emmer’s going to dish up, but if he has the ability to win over the Range with a ground game that up to now I didn’t know he had, then he likely has the sticktoitiveness to win come November.